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Quick Start
- Overview
- System requirements
- Minimum privileges required
- Default port configuration
- Installing DataSecurity Plus
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- Starting DataSecurity Plus
- Launching DataSecurity Plus
- Configuring your solution
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- Applying a license
File Auditing
- About File Auditing
- Domain configuration
- File server configuration
- Failover cluster configuration
- NetApp server configuration
- Nutanix server configuration
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Setting up File Audit
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Storage Configuration
File Analysis
- About File Analysis
- Domain configuration
- File server configuration
- Workgroup configuration
- SMB File Server Configuration
- On-Demand Reports
Setting up File Analysis
Dashboard
Reports
Alerts
Configuration
Data Risk Assessment
- About Data risk assessment
Setting up Data risk assessment
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Reports
Ownership analysis
Configuration
Endpoint DLP
- About Endpoint DLP
Setting up Endpoint DLP
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Prevention policies
Configuration
Cloud Protection
- About Cloud Protection
- Gateway Server Installation Steps
- Gateway Configuration in Endpoint
- Gateway Cluster Configuration
- Gateway Server Management
- Certificate Authority Configuration
- Two-way SSL configuration
- Manage Certificate Trust Store
- Threat Analytics Database
- Manage Banned Applications
- Manage Authorized Applications
- Regenerating gateway server access key
- Updating gateway server
- Gateway Server Failover
- Load Balancer Configuration
- Global Insight
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- Cloud App Discovery
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Setting up Cloud Protection
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Storage Configuration
Administrative settings
- Technician configuration
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- Workgroup configuration
- Security policy
Email configuration
General settings
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Troubleshooting
- HTTP communication failure
- Dormant DataEngine
- Secure Gateway server failure
- RPC communication failure
- Cloud Protection Gateway server failure
- Known issues and limitations
- Known errors and solutions
- Report discrepancy in File Analysis
Guides
- Agent document
- How to Migrate/Move DataSecurity Plus
- How to apply SSL certificate
- How to automate DataSecurity Plus database backup
- How to set alerts in DataSecurity Plus
- How to secure your DataSecurity Plus installation
About File Analysis
File Analysis is a module of DataSecurity Plus, a unified data security platform. It provides deep insights for strengthening file security and managing file storage, enabling users to analyze file permissions, optimize file storage, manage ROT data, and identify file security vulnerabilities.
Key capabilities
Analyze file storage
Locate stale and non-business files, analyze file storage patterns, view reports on file type distribution, and more.
Spot file security issues
Check effective permissions, and identify files and folders allowing unrestricted access, inconsistencies in permission propagation, and more.
Spot potential ransomware infections
Detect ransomware file extensions with the help of our built-in, up-to-date library. Automate a suitable response to isolate infected files.
Manage file and folder storage
Detect duplicate files, unused files, and empty folders, and delete them directly from reports to optimize disk storage.
Supported platforms
File analysis provides vital insights by conducting a thorough examination of file metadata. File analysis can be performed across the following platforms:
| Data source | Scan mode | Analysis type | Supported platforms |
| Windows file server | Agent-based | Drive | Windows Server 2008 R2 and above |
| Workgroup server | Agent-based | Drive | Windows Server 2008 R2 and above |
| SMB file server | Agentless | Share | Namely domain-joined Windows machines, NAS devices with SMB/CIFS-supported shares, and Windows file clusters. |
The DataSecurity Plus agent can only run on a machine with .NET framework version 4.5 and any of the server OSs mentioned above.